The landscape of impoliteness research
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Marta Dynel
Abstract
This article attempts to give a state-of-the-art picture of impoliteness studies and to indicate a few prospective research directions to enrich them. It critically surveys a number of theoretical and methodological problems (impoliteness vs. rudeness; intention; sanctioned face-threat; and impoliteness strategies), as well as the paramount topics of investigation (such as disagreement; arguments; insults, taboo words; or sarcasm), and discourse domains in which impoliteness can be found. Importantly, this paper brings to focus a selection of notions central to impoliteness, albeit not yet widely recognized in the scholarship on impoliteness. These include: slurs; pejoratives; and a number of phenomena promoted by computer mediated communication (e.g., flaming or trolling).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Journal of Politeness Research: Introduction
- A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data
- Agency, accountability and evaluations of impoliteness
- (Im)politeness and (im)morality: Insights from intervention
- In search of another understanding of politeness: From the perspective of attentiveness
- Jocular mockery in computer-mediated communication: A contrastive study of a Spanish and English Facebook community
- The landscape of impoliteness research
- Epilogue. Politeness research: Sociolinguistics as applied pragmatics
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Journal of Politeness Research: Introduction
- A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data
- Agency, accountability and evaluations of impoliteness
- (Im)politeness and (im)morality: Insights from intervention
- In search of another understanding of politeness: From the perspective of attentiveness
- Jocular mockery in computer-mediated communication: A contrastive study of a Spanish and English Facebook community
- The landscape of impoliteness research
- Epilogue. Politeness research: Sociolinguistics as applied pragmatics
